Starlight and Rust

[A Girl with Obsessive Tendencies × A Reborn Healer]

◆ “I don’t believe in forever, but I’m willing to try it for you.”

◆ Two-way redemption | Rebirth | Sweetness amid heartbreak | Guaranteed happy ending

“What does the deepest kind of love look like?”

“It’s wanting to hold someone close, yet having no choice but to push them away.”

Lin Wanwan is reborn in her final year of high school, on the third day after her relationship with Lu Chen completely fell apart.

In her previous life, Lu Chen drove away his childhood friend with his cruel words. Ten years later, after she died in a car accident, she saw him clutching her gravestone and weeping inconsolably. Given another chance at life, she finally understands: behind all the hurt was a boy’s most desperate attempt to protect her.

“Lu Chen, you’re not getting rid of me this time.”

Lu Chen carries a secret that haunts his family like a curse:

Locked in the bottom drawer of his desk are 37 sketches of Lin Wanwan, each marked on the back with “Stay away”;

Every Wednesday, he visits his mother’s grave, but always blacks out the eyes in her photograph before leaving;

On his eighteenth birthday, he smashed the model she gave him, then spent all night alone gluing it back together.

When Lin Wanwan forces her way into his world, she discovers that this gloomy, obsessive boy, during his episodes:

Carves her name into his arm, then furiously cuts it out;

Presses glass against his artery on a rainy night and says, “I could never hurt Wanwan.”

And behind every mystery surrounding her rebirth lies Lu Chen’s desperate love.

“Wanwan, hurry and leave. I don’t want to hurt you.” Eyes red, he tears himself away from her. “I’m begging you...”

“Lu Chen, I won’t let you go. I’m the one person you’ll never be able to drive away.”